Problem is: We don't even know what consciousness is.

So the best we can say is if something creates the impression of having one, based on whom we attribute consciousness to, i.e. other humans. Well, big surprise that a model explicitly trained on human language and texts creates that impression. It does show just how good the models are. At pretending to be human because they have a shitload of examples on what humans would say.

For all we know, the gas clouds on Jupiter could be conscious, just in a way that is completely baffling to us. We can't rule it out because we don't know what consciousness is, so we can't test for it.

It's not the only solution, but it's usually the correct one.

However I wouldn't count on it, as Winston Churchill once said "you can always count on the Americans to do the right thing, after they've tried everything else".

Don't assume it's a script, I mean that takes a modicum of skill where as a room full of Russians or Pakistanis are cheap and require no skill what so ever.

The one where you can watch a chubby, tanned bottle blond fuck thousands of average Americans.

Sony's going broke as well. They are both struggling to make money on their loss leader model these days as people are chafing under the "pay for everything" model they use. People are trying to find cheaper "Xbox/PS live "rape me"" subscriptions and buying fewer games (which publishers have to pay a fee to the console manufacturers to sell.

Nintendo is going to be the only one left because ultimately, Nintendo is the only one still making a console instead of a PC wannabe... as for the PC wannabes, they'll never be as good as a PC and are just as expensive (more so once you add on all your subscriptions for basic things).

Not that Nintendo is remotely benign these days either. I'll just stick to PC gaming.

Nononononono, this is one of those "one rule for me and another for thee" things. They still want their patents and copyrights enforced, especially against the little people.

Gaben isn't the only publisher who's said this, Brad Wardell of Stardock has also said something similar, pirates dont matter or pirates are just unserved customers.

Ultimately they're right, if someone is going to pirate then you ultimately cant stop them. All you can do is make a product that people want to pay for, something good enough that people think "I'll separate myself from my hard earned Dollars/Euros/Pounds/Zloty/insert currency of choice here".

In the end, by trying to stop pirates all you do is punish your own customers, those who actually paid money for your product.

Please remember the APA voted to torture and destroy the minds of people who wore Casio watches, and assisted in that torture program. (All anyone needed to be arrested under the bounty program was to be in a suspicious area or to have a highly accurate clock or watch. No actual evidence of wrongdoing was required.)

Many practitioners had absolutely no problems with abusing their knowledge and ability, not against actual terrorists or even people from the same nation as the terrorists, but against easy targets. The banality of evil, demonstrated to a high degree.

If an organisation can commit acts of utter depravity and evil on whim, then a whim is all that is needed.

This doesn't mean it will happen, but the APA has shown no obvious signs of maturity or rationality, only excuses. And that's not a good position to be in, when the head of state has licensed ICE to gun down people without cause and has promoted the wellbeing of diseases like measles over that of the citizens.

I don't believe forcible injections are likely, but I'm also not going to say that psychiatrists have been earning trust these past 26 years. Personally, I think forcible injections won't happen, but not because psychiatrists have discovered ethics. Rather, because it just isn't practical.

How are Valve gatekeeping?

They don't control PC gaming, you can self publish your game if you like and there's absolutely nothing Valve can do to stop you (unlike on say, Apple, Xbox or Playstation). Valve is the 600 KG gorilla in PC gaming because they do good work and deliver promises, for their 30% they handle a lot of things for you, payment processing, currency exchange, customer service (OK, here is where they aren't particularly stellar), content distribution, security, so on and so forth.

If anything, Valve has been a bulwark against other companies like Epic, Microsoft and EA trying to become PC gaming gatekeepers.

Also, please do not sully the good name of Satan by comparing him to the likes of EA, Ubisoft and Microsoft.

Psychotherapy is unusual in that regard and they have a long history of doing exactly that. Particularly in the US. A very large chunk of what is known about psychoactive drugs come from American government programs where patients were injected without consent with a range of substances. A lot of their biological warfare research in the 60s and 70s, possibly into the 80s, was also done that way, allowing patients to die slowly from a range of diseases.

Nor has this completely stopped. The Gitmo "enhanced interrogation" program of the early 2000s involved not just torture but also involuntary substance abuse.

The use of fake vaccination programs by the US military (and the unauthorised use of Red Cross markings on vehicles by the same) is a significant factor in current world paranoia.

To be honest, it is not surprising that so many are paranoid about medicine - they voted for, and actively encouraged, such abuse when it was people they resented who suffered. And with so many in the APA voting to abuse their medical training under Bush II, it's hardly surprising that there's a feeling that such things can now be used on everyone else, too.

"Security is defined as a positive integer. By having none and then removing a layer, we overflow to perfection."

Not true.

An attacker may have a limited window. He might exploit some other vulnerability to do some operation with privileged access rights, but not have an admin shell.

You're not saying?

But they take security so seriously. They said. They promised. This time for real. No, this time. Ok, next time.

> Heh, I've never heard that term before.

It's an acronym for "jack of all trades."